NOTE: The data and findings below are drafts subject to change and some pieces are still in the QA process.
RACE COUNTS provides a 3D view of racial equity:
PERFORMANCE: How
well people are doing. The higher the circle, the better the
performance.
DISPARITY: How racial groups compare to one another.
The further right the circle, the greater the differences by race.
IMPACT: The total population. The bigger the circle, the larger the
population.
Purple counties: Gains at Risk;
Orange counties: Prosperity for
the Few;
Yellow counties:
Struggling to Prosper;
Red counties:
Stuck and Unequal.
1) “Other” race includes those who identify with a race outside
of the specifically named categories, such as Asian, White, etc.
2)
Race labels for bar charts: The “nh_” prefix signifies that a group is
non-Latinx (excludes Latinx).
3) The “twoormor” group represents
those who identify as Two or More Races.
There are several key areas where racial disparities exist in educational outcomes across different racial and ethnic groups in the state of California.
Across the state, NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-Pacific Islander are more likely to experience chronic absenteeism than other groups. (See State Barchart on Chronically Absent Students (%))
Additionally, NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-Pacific Islander students have lower graduation rates than the state average. NH-Black student graduation rates are 16.7 percentage points lower than the group with the highest rate. (See State Barchart on Graduates as a Percentage of Four-Year Adjusted Cohort Students)
NH- Filipinx, NH- Asian, NH- White, and NH- Students of Two or More races experience lower suspension rates. (See State Barchart on students Suspended per 100 Students)
More than 50% of Asian, Filipinx, Two or More Races, and White third graders scored proficient in English Language Arts, while less than a third of NH-PI, NH-Black, NH-AIAN, and Latinx students score proficient or better. (See State Barchart on 3rd Graders Scoring Proficient or Better in English Language Arts (%) and 3rd Graders Scoring Proficient or Better in Math (%))
ECE access rates are low across the state for all groups, even the best rate means less than one in two children has acess to licensed ECE programs. Still NH-AIAN, Latinx, and NH-Black children all have less acccess to licensed ECE programs than the average child in California. (See State Barchart on Children 0-5 Enrolled in Licensed ECE Program (%))
San Francisco has among the highest racial disparities, driven by large inequities in chronic absenteeism and graduation rates.
Most Northern California region counties have lower than average performance, with many counties also exhibiting higher levels of disparity.
San Francisco County is by far the most racially disparate on chronic absenteeism. NHPI students have the highest absenteeism rate at 65.9%, which is 58.2 percentage points higher than the group with the lowest rate.
Plumas County has the highest rates of absenteeism, with more than half of students (56.2%) being chronically absent. All groups have higher rates, however, Latinx students are the most likely to be chronically absent (61.8%).
Statewide, NHPI, NH-Black, NH-AIAN, and Latinx students have the highest rates for chronic absenteeism ranging from 28.9% to 36.6% respectively.
NH-Black, NHPI, and NH-AIAN students are 3.5 times more likely to be chronically absent than the group with the lowest rate.
Mono, Nevada, Inyo, and San Francisco Counties have the lowest graduation rates and the highest racial disparities on this measure.
In Mono, only one in three Latinx students graduate.
Modoc County has the lowest rates in this measure, with only one in five 3rd graders scoring Proficient or Better in ELA.
Imperial County is the most disparate in this measure, with a 41.5 percentage point difference between the groups with the highest and lowest rate.
Modoc County is the lowest performing on this measure with less than 25% of its students scoring Proficient or Better in Math.
Larger population counties have above average levels of racial disparities among racial and ethnic groups for this indicator.
Inyo County is the most racially disparate for this measure, with suspension rates for NH-AIAN students reaching 7.1% while the suspension rates for the lowest group is 0.
Three counties (Modoc, Lake, and Del Norte) in the Northern California region are the lowest performing for this measure, with suspension rates at or nearing 10%.
NH-Pacific Islander, Latinx, NH-AIAN, and NH-Black students are suspended at above state average rates.
NH-Black students are suspended at a rate 8.0 times higher than the lowest suspension rate.
Larger population counties overall are in the Yellow (Lower disparity, Lower performance) Quadrant, with Low Angeles County having the lowest disparity.
All but two (Mariposa and Tuolumne) Central Valley counties are in the Yellow (Lower disparity, Lower performance) and Red (Higher disparity, Lower performance) Quadrants.